Transformation Programme Director

Transformation Programme Director

Are you a strategicprogrammeleader who thrives on driving enterprise-wide transformation and delivering measurable impact?

Our Programme Delivery Office brings together experts in Project, Change, Programme Management and Digital Transformation to deliver transformational initiatives across Elsevier’s analytical and digital ecosystem.

Our mission is to enable strategic execution that creates measurable value for our customers, our teams, and our business. We partner globally across business units to drive innovation, improve efficiency, and ensure the seamless delivery of business & technology transformation.

The Transformation Programme Director is a senior orchestrator who helps turn strategy into sustained business outcomes. Beyond delivering programmes, you will support shaping the target operating model, orchestrate change across process, data, technology and people, and help ensure value is realised and reported.

You will initially programme manage the Polaris Programme — a multi-phase transformation designed to harmonise and optimise Elsevier’s Lead-to-Invoice processes and capabilities across all business units. You will manage the programme roadmap that blends best-in-class sales practices, process excellence, data foundations, and AI/automation to deliver a future-ready, scalable revenue platform.

The role joins in the early stages of Phase 1 (Process Harmonisation), where we will establish a common blueprint, drive adoption and harmonise ways of working. Future phases will support business onboarding, adoption and realisation of the strategic benefits of the transformation.

Working with senior stakeholders, project managers and delivery teams, you will ensure clear governance, alignment, and delivery of outcomes that drive long-term business value.

• Directing the delivery of programme outcomes aligned to strategic business objectives, with a focus on driving transformation and long-term value.
• Establishing pragmatic governance, dependency management and decision rights across programmes and functions.
• Developing trusted relationships with senior stakeholders to enable decision-making and ensure alignment across global teams.
• Communicating progress with transparency, from executive sponsors to front-line teams; escalating early on structural risks.
• Safeguarding scope, schedule, budget and quality; run RAID, dependency and change control rigorously.
• Supporting and empowering project teams, holding them to outcome-based milestones, stopping or steering activities that don’t add value.

• Proven leadership of large-scale Sales / Lead-to-Invoice / Salesforce transformation within a complex, global matrix organisation.
• Strong commercial acumen, with experience in vendor and budget management.
• Exceptional stakeholder management and influencing skills at the executive level.
• Strategic thinker with the ability to simplify complexity and bring clarity to multiple work streams.
• Track record of value-centric delivery—OKRs, benefits realisation, and adoption metrics.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and motivate diverse teams, fostering engagement through a shared purpose and clear outcomes.
• Consultative and collaborative approach comfortable leading across business and technology.
• Experience matrix managing teams of varying sizes and capabilities, applying different motivational and development strategies as needed.

You are a confident and empathetic leader who thrives in complex environments. You bring structure where there is ambiguity, foster alignment across diverse stakeholders, and inspire teams to deliver transformational change. You combine strategic insight with execution discipline, ensuring programs deliver measurable outcomes that advance our business goals.

Join our team and contribute to a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence. If you are ready to advance your career and make a significant impact, we encourage you to apply.

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